A New Boundary Stone of Nebuchadrezzar I from Nippur With a Concordance of Proper Names and a Glossary of the Kudurru Inscriptions Thus Far Published

by Hinke, William J.; Hanson, K. C.

• ISBN13: 9781608990993
• ISBN10: 1608990990
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. x
Bibliography	p. xiv
List of Abbreviations	p. xxvi
Babylonian Boundary Stones:
Discovery and decipherment	p. 1
Older similar monuments	p. 3
National boundary atone of Entemena	p. 3
Doorsockets	p. 4
Origin of Babylonian boundary stones	p. 6
Documents for public and private use	p. 8
Religious features of the boundary stones	p. 14
Legal transactions in the Kudurru inscriptions	p. 16
Royal grants	p. 16
Grants to faithful officials	p. 16
Grants to fugitives	p. 20
Grants to temples	p. 21
Grants involving restorations	p. 22
Grants involving lawsuits	p. 24
Royal charters	p. 27
Transfers of private property	p. 32
Dowries	p. 32
Purchases of laud	p. 32
Contents of the Kudurru inscriptions	p. 37
Names of the boundary stones	p. 37
Orientation of fields	p. 39
Officials of the Kudurru inscriptions	p. 41
Injunctions against acts of violence	p. 46
Names and titles of deities	p. 51
Curses of the Kudurru inscriptions	p. 59
Presence of witnesses	p. 70
Pictorial representations of kings who made grants	p. 71
Symbols of the boundary stones	p. 71
Testimony of the inscriptions as to the symbols	p. 73
Threefold form of symbols	p. 74
The shrinea	p. 75
The weapons of the gods	p. 78
The symbols as representations of the gods	p. 87
The astral nature of the symbols	p. 96
The zodiac of Dendera	p. 101
The symbols as signs of the zodiac	p. 104
The Dodekaoros	p. 106
The East Asiatic circle	p. 109
The relation of these circles to the symbols	p. 112
Conclusions	p. 114
A New Boundary Stone of Nebuchadrezzar I. from Nippur, c. 1140 B.C.:
Introduction	p. 116
Inscription and symbols	p. 116
Identity of PA.She and Isin	p. 126
The succession of the Isin kings	p. 130
Place of Nebuchadrezzar I. in the second dynasty of Isin	p. 134
Transliteration and Translation	p. 142
Commentary	p. 156
Boundary Stone of Marduk-a$$$ê-Erba:
Introduction	p. 188
Transliteration and Translation	p. 190
Commentary	p. 196
Concordance:
Names of Persons	p. 200
Names of Places	p. 215
Names of Rivers and Canals	p. 219
Names of Deities	p. 220
List of Symbols	p. 231
Arranged chronologically	p. 231
Arranged alphabetically	p. 240
Glossary	p. 245
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